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There is no published numeric GMAT or GRE minimum for the one-year Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP). ISB’s current eligibility page says applicants may use GMAT 10th Edition, GMAT Focus Edition or GRE, and explicitly says no minimum score is needed to apply. For the current PGP Class of 2028, the page gives date windows in which a test score must fall, but those are score-validity rules, not marks or percentile cutoffs.
For the current Post Graduate Programme in Management for Young Leaders (PGP YL) Class of 2027–29, ISB’s admissions portal accepts GRE, GMAT or CAT. It says test-score performance contributes to shortlisting alongside academic performance, awards and achievements, and essays. The current portal does not state a minimum score for any of those tests. It therefore does not support a CAT, GMAT or GRE “cutoff” figure for PGP YL either.
The practical answer is that applicants cannot place themselves above or below an official ISB score threshold from the published pages reviewed here. ISB does not provide an opening or closing score by category, quota, campus or application round, and the reviewed pages do not provide a comparable historical cutoff series. There is consequently no defensible “cutoff rising” or “cutoff falling” trend to calculate. A number repeated by a coaching site or aggregator should not be treated as an ISB admission cutoff unless it identifies a responsible official source and matches programme, test, cycle and metric.
The current PGP cycle is for the Class of 2028. ISB requires a GMAT 10th Edition or Focus Edition score, or a GRE score. Its eligibility page says it has no preference between GMAT and GRE and no minimum score for either. This is a clear distinction between eligibility and selection: there is no published pass mark, but the test remains part of the application and the admissions committee considers the complete profile.
Applicants should first check whether their test is valid for the round in which they will apply. ISB requires a verified, test-centre-based score no older than five years from that round’s application deadline. For the 2027–28 cycle, the published score-date windows are:
As checked on 6 November 2026, Round 1 has passed and Round 2 is the next stated deadline. The dates above answer whether a score falls within the accepted window; they do not indicate what score is competitive or guarantee an interview. For Round 2, for example, a test taken on 6 December 2021 falls on the stated start date, while one taken earlier falls outside the published window. The application deadline and the test-date window are separate checks, so confirm both in the live form before submission.
ISB allows an applicant to submit the unofficial score shown on test day or an official score if already received. If using an unofficial score, the application-deadline instructions ask for the test confirmation email as a PDF and an approximate score in the form; the official report must still be sent directly by the testing agency. That administrative flexibility does not create a lower or higher cutoff. A score outside the allowed date window is a validity problem even if its number is strong.
PGP YL is a separate Hyderabad-based, 20-month programme for early-career applicants. Its current admissions portal lists GRE, GMAT or CAT for the Class of 2027–29 and requires a valid score by the deadline of the chosen round. The portal describes a two-stage selection process: shortlisting considers academic performance, awards and achievements, essays and test-score performance; shortlisted candidates then interview with senior industry leaders, ISB faculty and alumni.
This is not a published score formula. The portal does not state a minimum CAT percentile, GMAT score or GRE score, nor does it publish a category-wise or round-wise closing value. The fact that test performance is considered means an applicant should submit a valid result and present it accurately; it does not justify inventing a threshold from a class average, a profile chart or a third-party estimate. A cohort statistic describes enrolled students or the class profile. It is not the lowest score admitted unless ISB labels it that way and supplies the matching programme, cycle and measure.
For the current PGP YL Class of 2027–29, Round 1 closes on 20 December 2026 and Round 2 on 15 February 2027. ISB says a test taken on or before the selected round deadline may be submitted initially as an unofficial score with the confirmation email and approximate score; the official result must be sent through the test portal. The current portal lists the accepted tests, while older eligibility material can contain dates for the previous Class of 2026–28. Use the current cycle’s portal and deadline page rather than carrying a previous class’s score window forward.
Use the official pages to answer three different questions, instead of looking for a single number:
For a realistic application decision, treat a valid test result as one part of the file. Compare your own score with any clearly labelled official cohort information only as context, not as a threshold. Then assess whether your academic and professional record, essays and other required materials give the committee the evidence the application asks for. This is a practical reading of the published process, not an estimate of your admission probability; ISB does not publish enough cutoff data to calculate that probability from a score alone.
Open the PGP eligibility and test-score requirements and the PGP Class of 2028 deadlines together. Confirm the correct score window, round deadline and official-score reporting route. For PGP YL, use the current admissions portal and Class of 2027–29 deadline page. Check for a changed deadline or test rule before submitting because these pages are cycle-bound.
Do not use an old applicant’s score, a class average, a coaching estimate or a score from a different ISB programme as a cutoff. On the official evidence reviewed for this guide, the latest matching numeric ISB cutoff is not published, so no like-for-like upward or downward trend can be reported. The reliable next step is to confirm test acceptance and validity, then complete the rest of the current application against the programme’s own instructions.
